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Anyone here watched "Life is Beautiful"[1]?

There is a scene where the father of the boy "translates" what the German officer is telling to the prisoners. This is essentially what all UI (API included) does. Yeah, it's a lie, but it's a lie that actually shields us from the awful truth of how everything works.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Beautiful

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I'm Italian and I've seen that movie in Italian. I didn't know there was a dubbed version. It loses so much value. The original version is so much better.

Can you clarify? I've seen it subtitled (not dubbed), and now you made me wonder how much I missed.

When I searched on YouTube before writing the comment I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoDLZQLfM5Y

Maybe it's a fan dub (that might be why it's not the best quality possible). But yeah, if you've seen it subtitle then that's probably a lot better.

As I know is very uncommon to dub a movie in English spoken countries, and in USA they prefer to remake the entire movie in English.

"I didn't know there was a dubbed version." "The original version is so much better." ? was it remade?

ps. I have also not seen a dubbed one, but it is obviously subtitled.

By original version I meant the Italian version. This is what I found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoDLZQLfM5Y (it's probably not official).

How can you say the original version is so much better if you haven't seen the dubbed version?

Ahaha such lovely description of the API!

Not, mine. A professor that taught us UI, usability etc, told us that.

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